Brickset Bonusball Bonanza - UK draw 13 May 2017

It's everyone's favourite part of the week (except possibly @SumoLego)! For anyone who's new to this, how it works is that a question is posed, and when you answer it, you get a number from 1 to 59. Then we wait for Saturday's UK lottery draw, and the bonus ball number will reveal the winner of a Lego prize!

Inspired by @snowhitie's thread last week about our favourite childhood comics, I decided to stick with the childhood theme and ask:

What's your earliest memory?

(Mine: lying in my carrycot in the living room, when my mum came in from answering the phone and announced that it was a wrong number. This is so prosaic, but we'd been given the old number of a prominent local politician and it happened so often that apparently it stuck in my mind...)

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Two years old hitting another toddler round the head with my plastic spade. Same summer I got sung by a bee whilst sitting on the garden swing waiting for mum to get me off. I was screaming for help whilst it buzzed round me but she was too busy chatting to the neighbour to get me off so I got stung.

At 18 months old I remember my Dad driving us up Whitby bank in reverse because the way his Vauxhall Viva's tank drew fuel meant that going up a very steep hill forwards with 1/4 tank led to it cutting out through fuel starvation.

I do remember when I was 4 I finally decided to hit back at a bully, I slammed him into the wall pretty hard and of course I got the blame for the whole thing. Then again I'm still quite proud of that moment, but I'm trying to not pass that idea on to my daughter ;-)

Might be getting my foot cut by a piece of glass left on the beach, and my older brother taking me to a nearby pharmacy to get it bandaged. I should probably focus on the playing on the beach, in the sun, part of that memory ;)

I think I remember being in my great-grandfather's house just about 2 years old and wondering why it seemed so dark. Probably all the brown: carpet, sofa, tables, almost everything!I definitely remember having a new 3 wheel bike, wearing a baseball cap and my mam stopping me from going straight out onto the road. That must have been closer to 3 years old.

I have a few random early memories, but some seem so early that I can barely believe they are real.

I rember my car seat, with the twist lock mechanism for escaping it. The seat had red vinyl trim. I remember by blue pushchair with big silver wheels too.

And this one I just don't know how I could remember. My father had a two tone blue Ford Cortina Mark 1 estate. Specifically, it had a brown stain around the petrol cap.

The reason this is so odd, is that my father bought a brand new Vauxhall Viva estate in 1970. I was born in December 1969. We also have no photos of the Cortina, and any photos we have from that era are black and white anyway.

How could I possibly remember this?

Fortunately my dad must have bought a better Viva than the @monkeyhanger family as we could go forwards up hills ;-)

I stayed up late to watch "The Jet movie" which in reality was Top Gun. I don't remember the movie that night but I do remember what happened just a few moments after it ended. I was being ushered to bed and as I walked out of the room I slipped and fell down the stairs to our basement. and after all the tumbling had stopped I was trapped upside down against the basement door with my little face pressed against the wood. I can still to this moment see that door like it just happened.

I remember playing with the Hot Wheels playset pictured below in the front room of our first house in Florida. I would've been around 4. I loved that thing and also had a snow-related one. In fact, I'm hunting eBay right now for one for my boys.

I guess playing in the yard at the house I grew up in. Since that is boring I will also add I remember playing with the Odyssey II video game console on my grandparents cabinet TV but I would probably have been at least 5 at that point to be able to play/remember it.

The earliest thing I remember is having a nosebleed for the first time and not realising why my "runny nose" was all red (I was pretty young!)

I remember being taken to the doctors and then puking up blood everywhere, and then being put into the back of the doctor's car and taken to hospital. I remember all of that quite vividly, but I can't remember anything after that!

One of the only memories I have of the apt. where my parents first lived was when i was 2 or 3, waking up in the middle of the night, being tangled up and unable to movie in my blankets and freaking out because it was pitch black.

Thanks for getting me to jog that memory....makes me realize that as a parent, it's easy for me to get annoyed or roll my eyes at things my kids freak out at...but to them it's VERY real.

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